Chapter 691: Birthday Present
Tang Yuyun signed the pre-sale contract and left as if he had put down a matter on his mind. Zhang Zi'an was suddenly very curious about how she bought clothes and bags with obsessive-compulsive disorder, did she go directly to the factory?
After she left, the store was quiet again, and Lu Yiyun sat behind the cash register and drew without distraction. During the New Year, there are still very few people on the streets, and even fewer people walk into the shops.
Zhang Zi'an looked around and found that there was nothing to do, so he paced up to the second floor.
"Quack, you conscienceless, where did Uncle Ben provoke you today, and hang Uncle Ben up if you don't agree with each other?" Richard was hung upside down from the ceiling of the living room on the second floor, flapping his wings and shaking around.
Zhang Zi'an thought about it, and it didn't seem to be mischievous today, so he replied: "It didn't provoke me, it's just idle." ”
"If you have nothing to do, you will hang Uncle Ben up?" Richard was inexplicably saddened.
He said confidently: "Anyway, you don't have a day when you don't get into trouble, so if you have nothing to do, it can be regarded as a punishment in advance......"
"Punish others for mistakes that have not yet been made?, young man, you are dangerous!" cried Richard unconvinced.
"Okay, then I'll take you down. Zhang Zi'an pulled over the stool and stood up to untie the nylon rope that bound its claws.
Richard could finally stand on his head and feet, and he looked at him suspiciously: "Nothing to do, either a traitor or a thief! You are so good at talking today, is it because you have a request for Uncle Ben?"
"Huh. Zhang Zian said that he was really guessed by it.
"Do you remember meeting Cathy in the CFA arena in the United States?" he asked, "the one whose full name is Katherine Donna Ryan?"
Richard was busy combing the feathers that had been hung upside down with his beak, and said disdainfully, "Of course I remember! Don't think of Uncle Ben as an idiot like you! Isn't her portrait now downstairs?"
"Well, do you remember the way she spoke? I mean the accent or something?" he asked again.
Richard rolled his eyes, "Almost, what do you want to do?"
When he met Cathy in the CFA arena, Richard stood on his shoulder in stealth and communicated with Cathy on his behalf, so he remembered the old American lady's voice and smile very well.
"Cathy changed her will on her deathbed, and for some reason, she decided to leave these Abyssinian cats to me, but what...... I was in vain, I was restless, and I wanted to do something to compensate her. Zhang Zi'an said with a rare seriousness.
"Interesting, you also feel restless about sleeping, but Uncle Ben thinks you slept well last night......" said Richard with disdain.
"Of course, a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way. Then again, I remember Attorney Adams saying that Cathy, who had no immediate children, gave her cat to me in her will and donated the rest of her property to the Matthew Davis Cancer Research Foundation...... It seems to be the name, and it is specified for the study of lung cancer. Zhang Zi'an recalled, "In the CFA arena, she seemed to say that her husband died of lung cancer, and I think her decision was made for this reason, hoping to do her best to free more people from the pain of lung cancer." ”
Richard also became serious, did not interrupt, and listened silently.
"I don't know how much money she has, she's dressed modestly in the CFA arena, and even if she has some money, it probably won't be much...... In fact, even if she is a millionaire, multimillionaire or even billionaire, that money is a drop in the bucket to overcome the world's problem of lung cancer, but she still decided to do it. He continued.
"So what are you going to do with Uncle Ben?" asked Richard.
Zhang Zi'an said his intentions: "I pre-sold an Abyssinian kitten just now and sold it for 30,000 yuan. I did the math, after deducting the related costs, the net profit was about $4,000 in US dollars...... It's not a lot of money, but I want to donate it in Cathy's name to the Matthew Davis Cancer Research Foundation. So I'd like you to imitate her voice and give the Foundation a call. ”
Richard paced up and down on the table, as if thinking about something.
"That's just a pre-sale. After a while, it reminded: "You said that after deducting the cost, the net profit is 4,000 dollars, so the cost is only 700 dollars? Not to mention the cost of round-trip international postage and genetic screening, not to mention the consumption of canned cat food and cat litter, even if you only consider the cost of buying a shoe store and decoration, it will be more than 700 dollars, right?"
"Of course I do. Zhang Zi'an said very easily, "However, I didn't buy the shoe store next door for Cathy and those cats, but to expand the scope of business, even if I don't have those cats, I will still buy them, after all, you can't rest on your laurels in business, and it is only a matter of time before you expand your scale." ”
This argument may seem convincing, but it is not sufficient. Richard looked at him deeply, "That customer won't pay the balance until three months, right? Three months is a long time, anything can happen." Maybe the customer will regret it, maybe the cancellation of the transaction, the cancellation of the transaction will only cost her some deposit at most, and once the donation is donated, there is no way to cancel it. If it is Uncle Ben, it is wiser to wait for the final deal before making a decision. ”
Zhang Zi'an admitted that Richard made a lot of sense, but he still insisted: "Do you doubt my ability to do business? In my opinion, it is unlikely that the customer will cancel the transaction." ”
"Is there any other reason?" asked Richard persistently, "if that's all, you might as well tie Uncle Ben's feet and call yourself, so that you won't regret it in the future and be angry with Uncle Ben!"
Zhang Zi'an: "......" Am I the kind of man with a small belly and chicken intestines?
"Okay. In fact, there is another reason, when Adams was presenting the power of attorney, I noticed that Cathy's birthday was today, and I wanted to give her a birthday present. He said the most important reason, "You know, if a birthday present is delivered late, it may be rude to a lady." ”
Richard was silent, and he roughly understood Zhang Zi'an's intentions. Some things can't be delved into, such as why Zhang Zi'an decided to donate in Cathy's name, why Cathy gave the cat that had been cultivated for many years to a Chinese who met in Pingshui for free, which may be fate.
Fate is wonderful.
It flapped its wings and shouted, "Quack, so what are you waiting for? Go look up the Cancer Research Foundation's phone number, and let's play a game of resurrection of the dead!"